{"id":238037,"date":"2024-10-24T01:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/24\/local-players-should-be-the-foundation-of-the-black-stars-starlets-assistant-coach\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T01:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:50:03","slug":"local-players-should-be-the-foundation-of-the-black-stars-starlets-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/24\/local-players-should-be-the-foundation-of-the-black-stars-starlets-assistant-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Local players should be the foundation of the Black Stars \u2013 Starlets assistant coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/517\/51785512.295.jpg\" alt=\"The Assistant Coach of the Black Starlets, Nana Kweku Agyemang\" title=\"The Assistant Coach of the Black Starlets, Nana Kweku Agyemang\" width=\"295\" height=\"203\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The Assistant Coach of the Black Starlets, Nana Kweku Agyemang<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Assistant Coach of the Black Starlets (U-17), Nana Kweku Agyemang, has asserted why the senior national team, The Black Stars, should be a mix of players primarily made up of local talents.<\/p>\n<p>To buttress his point, he noted that hardworking local players would check complacency on the part of players from the diaspora and would also play with much more zeal, seeing the call-up as a big opportunity to prove themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the abysmal performance of the Black Stars lately, he argued that the coach was not the main problem as some may hold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the coach is so much of a problem. I think we as Ghanaians would have to look at our challenges holistically,\u201d Nana Kweku Agyemang said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a league going on in Ghana, a premier league. One of the questions I always ask is, is there any country in this world that assembles only foreign-based players to play in the national team? Once you do that, then it\u2019s as if we don\u2019t have belief in our local league. These foreign-based players are very, very good players, but I think we should find locally-based players to give them a little bit of challenge in the camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>International players \u201cshould know that, \u2018If I\u2019m not there, somebody is picking up my position.\u2019 You know what I mean. Again, the locally-based players are really looking for all these opportunities. If we put them up, mix them up with these foreign-based players, I think that we can achieve a lot,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>The Assistant Coach of the Black Starlets spoke to Channel One TV.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, Vision FC announced the appointment of Nana Kweku Agyemang as their new head coach as they prepared for their debut in the Ghana Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>An alumnus of the University of Calgary, Canada, Nana Kweku Agyemang has a great interest in and a track record of player development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assistant Coach of the Black Starlets, Nana Kweku Agyemang The Assistant Coach of the Black Starlets (U-17), Nana Kweku Agyemang, has asserted why the senior national team, The Black Stars, should be a mix of players primarily made up of local talents. To buttress his point, he noted that hardworking local players would check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Local players should be the foundation of the Black Stars \u2013 Starlets assistant coach - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/24\/local-players-should-be-the-foundation-of-the-black-stars-starlets-assistant-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Local players should be the foundation of the Black Stars \u2013 Starlets assistant coach - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Assistant Coach of the Black Starlets, Nana Kweku Agyemang The Assistant Coach of the Black Starlets (U-17), Nana Kweku Agyemang, has asserted why the senior national team, The Black Stars, should be a mix of players primarily made up of local talents. 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